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Thursday, March 17, 2016

FETUSES KEPT ALIVE FOR ORGAN HARVESTING

The federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 says that when a
child is born alive, including having a beating heart, he or she is a
legal person and has a right to lifesaving medical care.

California law also prohibits any kind of experimentation on a fetus with a discernible heartbeat, said the Center for Medical Progress, which is calling for the federal government to cease its $500 million a year support to Planned Parenthood and for it to be investigated.“Today’s video is especially gruesome, and it shows, once again, the barbarity of what takes place at Planned Parenthood
clinics across the country,” said Rep. Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania
Republican and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on
health, one of several congressional panels investigating Planned Parenthood.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican and chairman of the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Wednesday that all the
videos are “disturbing,” and his committee’s investigation will look
into whether “any federal funding supported transactions involving fetal
tissue.”“Top-level employees of Planned Parenthood
admit to changing their procedures to harvest intact bodies of unborn
children for body-part trafficking,” said Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona
Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the
Constitution and civil justice.

Mr. Franks and House Judiciary
Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, also said
Wednesday that they have written to 58 Planned Parenthood
affiliates.

They are seeking 10 years of data about all abortions,
late-term abortions, “born-alive” infants, fetal tissue collections and
any modifications of abortion techniques to “increase the odds of
preserving intact fetal tissue and organs.”

O’Donnell describes the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs from a
nearly intact late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s
Alameda clinic in San Jose, CA.

“‘Want to see something kind of
cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the
heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking at
this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think.”

O’Donnell also tells how her StemExpress supervisor instructed her to
cut through the face of the fetus in order to get the brain. “She gave
me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of the
face. I can’t even describe what that feels like,” she says.The
San Jose Planned Parenthood does abortions up to 20 weeks of pregnancy.

Referring to the beating heart of the aborted fetus, O’Donnell remarks,
“I don’t know if that constitutes it’s technically dead, or it’s
alive.”

“Oh my God, this … just what am I doing?” she recalled thinking to
herself after she had complied. “That was the moment when I knew I
couldn’t work for the company anymore.”

The seventh video includes
an interview with an official with another biotech company who says,
“So, you know, there are times when after the [abortion] procedure is
done that the heart actually is still beating.”It also contains a
brief interview with another biotech official who says that feticides,
like digoxin, are not used when an aborted fetus is going to be
dissected for parts because feticides taint the tissues.

Mr. Daleiden,
the video project leader, said that not using drugs to kill the fetus
before the abortion raises the risks that a child will be born alive. The video also features recordings of Dr. Ben Van Handel, the Executive
Director of Novogenix Laboratories, LLC, and also of Perrin Larton,
Procurement Manager of Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR).

Novogenix is the company that has harvested fetal organs from abortions
done by Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Senior Director of
Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, in Los Angeles, while ABR is the
oldest fetal tissue procurement company and works with Planned
Parenthood in San Diego and other clinics around the country.

Van Handel
admits, “There are times when after the procedure is done that the
heart actually is still beating,” and Larton describes abortions she has
seen where “the fetus was already in the vaginal canal whenever we put
her in the stirrups, it just fell out.”

CMP’s Project Lead David
Daleiden notes, “Today’s video contains heartrending admissions about
the absolute barbarism of Planned Parenthood’s abortion practice and
baby parts sales in which fetuses are sometimes delivered intact and
alive. Planned Parenthood is a criminal organization from the top down
and should be immediately stripped of taxpayer funding and prosecuted
for their atrocities against humanity.”

WHICH OF THOSE CONGRESSMEN GET DONATIONS FROM EITHER 'PLANNED
PARENTHOOD' AND/OR THE BIOTECH COMPANIES WHO BUY THE HARVESTED ORGANS?

Paige Cunningham, Executive Director of The Center for Bioethics
& Human Dignity submitted the following testimony on March 2,
2016 to the SELECT INVESTIGATIVE PANEL OF THE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY
AND COMMERCE U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES regarding the ethics of
fetal tissue use in research. Clickhere for a PDF of the original testimony.

"The fetus is a human subject entitled to the protections that
both traditional and modern codes of medical ethics provide to human
subjects. The fetus, as a uniquely vulnerable and dependent
human person, merits the same (or even heightened) protections that
modern declarations and codes of medical ethics impose on all human
subject research. Current legal standards and other guidelines fail in
this regard, giving insufficient recognition to the moral status of the
fetus and violating norms of informed consent.

Biological and moral status of the fetus.
(What follows is the briefest mention of serious philosophical arguments
about the moral status of the fetus that have been addressed
extensively elsewhere.)

The human fetus, and in its earlier stages, the
embryo, has been variously viewed as “a nonpersonal organism;”[2] tissue;[3] a potential or future person;[4] a human entity entitled to special respect or special regard;[5] a human being whose moral standing increases during gestation;[6] or an immature human being with the same moral status as an adult human being.[7]

Science establishes that the nascent human, as a blastocyst, then an embryo, then a fetus, is an organism of the species Homo sapiens, and genetically distinct from both father and mother.

She[8]
is a determinate humane being, enduring over time, who directs her own
integral organic functioning. Given time, nutrition, and a safe
environment, the embryo, then fetus, will grow and develop through all
the natural stages of human life.[9]Rather than being a distinct—and lesser—form of human life, the fetus
is a distinct human being at a particular developmental stage.

As such,
she is not a potential human being, but an actual human being, whose
life should not be intentionally ended by force.

It is “morally
impermissible to engage in any research, for any purpose, that involves
the destruction of human beings at any stage of their lives, including
the embryonic stage, or in any condition, however weak or dependent.”[10]Those who are responsible for terminating the life of a fetus have
failed to recognize this fundamental principle of human dignity, and
thus have no moral claim to be able to donate or assign the body,
organs, or tissues of the fetus to others, regardless of the nobility of
purpose."

In June, the Senate voted to defund Planned Parenthood and send the money to community health clinics, but it failed by seven votes.

"However, the Planned Parenthood letter provides no evidence that the
$60 estimate is correct and claims Planned Parenthoood affiliates “must
be able to demonstrate the reimbursement represents its actual costs”
but provides no evidence of that.Concerning the potentially illegal altering of abortion procedures to
secure aborted baby body parts for sale, the letter states:
In performing the selected method, a physician may need
to make multiple adjustments to the method as the surgery proceeds.
These adjustments are clinical judgments – not a change of method – made
by the physician as the abortion proceeds and are always intended to
achieve the woman’s desired result as safely as possible.

That appears to contradict one of the early Planned Parenthood expose
videos, in which Planned Parenthood medical director Deborah Nucatola
was caught admitting how she would discuss which type of aborted baby
body parts were needed with other Planned Parenthood staffers and would
“crush above” and below the aborted baby’s body to obtain the organs she
wanted to sell. That had nothing to do with women’s health and
everything to do with making money off of the sales of body parts."Richards also claims only one Planned Parenthood clinic is selling the
body parts of aborted babies but admits as many as four clinics have
been selling aborted baby body parts, but claims those relationships
have ended since the release of the videos. That contradicts statements
from StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer, who has said her company works with more than 100 abortion clinics and that half of them are Planned Parenthood abortion centers.Separately, StemExpress was in a California court Wednesday in its effort to block the release of a Center for Medical Progress video featuring a recorded conversation with three employees.

The biotech firm, based in Placerville, California, recently ended its relationship with two California Planned Parenthood affiliates to purchase their aborted fetus parts and resell them for scientific experimentation.

The expose’ videos catching Planned Parenthood officials selling the
body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation. Here is a list of
all eight:

In the first video:
Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing:
“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know
that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below,
I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”

In the second video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joked, “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price for baby parts.

In the third video:
Holly O’Donnell, a former Stem Express employee who worked inside a
Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the unspeakable
atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs.

In the fourth video:
Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde stated, “We don’t want to do just
a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little
better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.” She also
laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that were “good to
go.”

In the fifth video:
Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of
Planned Parenthood’s skill in obtaining “intact fetal cadavers” and how
her “research” department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our
organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our
Research Department is the largest in the United States.”

In the sixth video: Holly
O’Donnell described technicians taking fetal parts without patient
consent: “There were times when they would just take what they wanted.
And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.”

SE: As you probably know, one of the
issues with neural tissue, it’s so fragile. It’s insanely fragile. And I
don’t even know—I was gonna say, I know we get requests for neural,
it’s the hardest thing in the world to ship.

Buyer: You do it as the whole calvarium.

SE: Yeah, that’s the easiest way. And we’ve actually had good success with that.

Buyer: Make sure the eyes are closed!

SE: Yeah! [laughter] Tell the lab it’s coming!

Buyer: Yeah.

SE: They’ll open the box, go, ”Oh God!” [laughter] So yeah, so many of the academic labs cannot fly like that, they’re not capable.

Buyer: Why is that? I don’t understand that.

SE: It’s almost like they don’t want to know
where it comes from. I can see that. Where they’re like, “We need limbs,
but no hands and feet need to be attached.” And you’re like, ? Or they
want long bones, and they want you to take it all off, like, make it so
that we don’t know what it is.

Buyer: Bone the chicken for me and then we’ll—

SE: That’s it.

Buyer: And then I’ll eat it, but.

SE: But we know what it is. I mean, [laughter], but their lab.

Buyer: But then it goes to that whole stigma.

SE: Oh yeah. And their lab techs freak out, and
have meltdowns, and so it’s just like, yeah. I think, quite frankly,
that’s why a lot of researchers ultimately, some of them want to get
into other things. They want to look at bone marrow, they want to look
at adipose- sort of adult human, kind of adult based sampling. They want
to avoid publishing a paper that says it was derived from fetal tissue.

NOW, IF NONE OF THIS MAKES YOU QUESTION CONGRESS' CONTINUING TO FUND THIS GROUP, THIS 'PLANNED PARENTHOOD', THEN I MUST SUGGEST YOU RUN FOR CONGRESS.

ANYONE WHO SEES ANY OF THIS AS ETHICAL, WHO "GETS THE JOKE" THOSE TWO WERE LAUGHING AT, WOULD FIT RIGHT IN WITH ALL THESE VULTURES AND MONEY-HUNGRY, CONSCIENCE-LESS MONSTERS.

AFTER ALL, THERE'S BIG BUCKS TO BE MADE OFF THE HELPLESS VICTIMS. NONE WILL EVER FIGHT BACK WHILE BEING RIPPED APART.EASY MONEY....RIGHT?

"Dr. Trevor Stammers, Director for
Bioethics St Mary's University opposed the practice, arguing that
"...the concept reduces the baby to nothing more than a utilitarian
means to an end a collection of spare parts rather than respecting
life for its own sake... Yes, I know those organs can potentially save
the lives of others, but at what cost to our humanity? The integrity of
transplant medicine has already been compromised by using organs from
euthanized adults. Raiding the bodies of children born only for their
organs will further tarnish the profession and could well lead to a
broader decrease in the rates of organ donation".

AND INTACT SPINAL COLUMN...

WHAT NEXT?SELL ANY CHILD FOR ORGAN HARVESTING?

THEN WHAT?

WHO'S NEXT?

_______________JUST IN CASE ANYONE READING HERE HAS SEEN THIS "DOCTOR" AS A PATIENT...